The Latest Breaking News on COVID-19

Here's a quick wrap of this week's COVID statistics from each Australian jurisdiction.

The World Health Organization said the world isn’t at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, just days after President Joe Biden declared it’s over in the United States.

Visitors will no longer be required to show their vaccination certificates or Covid-19 test results when they enter the country, and infected individuals with mild symptoms won't need to self-isolate when Thailand further relaxes its disease control measures next month.

New COVID variants BF.7 and BA.2.75.2 are edging out BA.5 for supremacy. Will the new vaccine boosters be enough?

The federal health department is due to release the latest data on COVID-19 cases, vaccinations and the impact on hospitals.

The national average number of COVID-19 cases dropped about 15 per cent compared to the previous reporting week, the latest federal coronavirus data shows.

People urged to get a Covid booster jab if eligible and to stay at home if ill as number of positive tests and patients admitted to hospital on the rise

The BF.7 variant has been found in the UK as well as several other European countries.

Around one in 20 of all over-50s have now had the vaccine.

According to the Office for National Statistics, an estimated two million people were experiencing long Covid as of July 31

The variant comes as we head into winter, when case numbers could surge